It’s called tomosynthesis — essentially 3D mammography. An X-ray tube moves in an arch around the breast. Instead of just two angles, it can photograph 15 different angles, giving doctors a much better look.

“Different levels of the breast come into focus at different times,” Lewin said. “We can see cancers on this that we can’t see on a regular mammogram.”

Tomosynthesis decreases the number of false positive callbacks and may require a little less compression, meaning less pain.

While diagnosis is improving at Rose Medical Center, so is breast cancer treatment with a clinical trial of what’s called “intraoperative radiation therapy,” or IORT.